6th photo of 365

As a photographer there's one thing we all (generally speaking, of course) hate more than anything in the world; post-processing.

Now, there are ways to make your life easier, as to automatize large chunks of the process. There are numerous plug-ins, actions for Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop available out there, but at a price. I've never been a fan of Photoshop. I used to tell people that I'd like to get it right in the camera. In reality though, I just didn't know my ways around the software. I would even go as far as to say that I was afraid of Photoshop.

Having said that, one of my goals this year is to more familiarize myself with the infamous king of post-processing; the Photoshop.

Now, what I have done in Photoshop here might not be very noticeable, so I'll list number of things I have done here.

First of all, I corrected the barrel distortion as much as I could. I can still see little distortion nearing the edges of photo, though. I've also exaggerated vignetting. The vignetting was already present in the original photo, but I've boosted contrast and added little bit of magenta tint to make it more "pop."

And lastly, I've added so called Film Grains. I've basically found and downloaded a film grain texture from one of those license-free websites, and created and merged texture layer on top of initial photo.

Aforementioned process might not take more than couple of minutes for seasoned Photoshop artist, and it can surely be automatized with simple action pack. I didn't wanted to do that. I wanted to learn the software from the very beginner's point-of-view. Instructions of this process can be found on various websites, and would be a great beginner's exercise to get one's feet wet.